Invisible Horizons

Invisible Horizons
Author: Vincent H. Gaddis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1965
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Compendium of extraordinary adventures and supranormal events and phenomena men have witnessed on the high seas.

Ultimate Horizons

Ultimate Horizons
Author: Helmut Satz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642416578

In the last hundred years, modern physics and cosmology have shown that there exist regions of the universe forever beyond our reach, hidden by truly ultimate horizons. Such regions exist in those remote parts of the universe where, from our point of view, space expands faster than the speed of light. They are found in black holes, where the gravity is strong enough to retain even light within its field of attraction. And in the realm of the very small, quarks must remain forever confined to their world of extreme density and can never be removed from it. The aim of this book is to describe these ultimate horizons, how they were discovered, how they shape our view of the world, and what clues we have about a world beyond them.

The Triangle

The Triangle
Author: Mike Bara
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1948803178

Mike Bara, author of Ancient Aliens on the Moon, takes a hard look at the Bermuda Triangle. For decades, no single place has intrigued the world more than the baffling mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. Hundreds of ships, planes and yachts have disappeared in the dark, mysterious waters between Bermuda and Florida, far more than in any other part of the world. Ships have vanished without a trace only to magically reappear years later in good order but minus their crews, almost as if the intervening years had not even passed–for them. Yachts and ocean liners have gone missing in good weather with no explanation. Pilots have reported bizarre problems with their instruments as compasses and guidance systems have spun inexplicably out of control over the shadowy waters of the Triangle. Entire squadrons of military aircraft have disappeared off of radarscopes in clear weather and with no forewarning. Others have experienced strange magnetic anomalies and otherworldly encounters with mysterious craft and unrecognizable energetic fields. Explanations range from alien encounters to rogue waves to twisting unnatural funnel spouts caused by submerged civilizations left over from the days of Atlantis. New York Times bestselling author Mike Bara investigates these and other mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle in his new book The Triangle. Find out what really happened to Flight 19, the Navy training flight that last reported “they look like they’re from outer space” over the Triangle. Examine the undersea ruins of a lost civilization just off the island of Bimini and the strange stone road that leads directly into the deep waters of the Triangle. Examine the case of the Cotopaxi, the ore ship lost at sea only to reappear decades later off the coast of Cuba, far beyond where it was last sighted in the Triangle’s maritime shipping lanes. These and other enigmatic cases will be stripped open and laid bare before the light of history as the reader is carried on a journey to the world’s most frightening and impenetrable mystery–The Bermuda Triangle.

New Critical Theory

New Critical Theory
Author: William S. Wilkerson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2001-11-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1461610389

New Critical Theory surveys contemporary leftist thought while introducing the tenets of this new form of critical theory. Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between Marxism, Habermas, and the politics of identity, William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey R. Paris present a collection that critiques the globalization of capital. The development of personality appears as subject to socialized standards in an age of global capitalism. Only after scrutinizing the effects of such a system can liberation be found. The essays within join Critical Theory with postmodern insights on language and subjectivity to provide a more comprehensive view of emancipatory social theory. Through this and other refelctions on critical race, gender, and queer theories, Wilkerson and Paris emerge with an encompassing volume defining New Critical Theory.

The Reification of Desire

The Reification of Desire
Author: Kevin Floyd
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816643954

Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categories of reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames the work of Georg Lukâas, Herbert Marcuse and Frederic Jameson.

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities
Author: Dr Claudio Coletta
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-11-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1409488853

By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forward a notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, it perceives the way cities are organized as a restless stratification of materials, meanings and uses, and deals with the interrelationships between actors, places, administrative rationalities and artefacts. It argues that urban fabric is 'manufactured' in this interplay between imagery and practices (of all the stake-holders, including planners, city managers and city users). Illustrated by in-depth empirical studies from across Europe and Latin America, the book explores material and symbolic aspects of the urban experience. In particular, the contributors focus on the less visible ways of organizing urban spaces, such as those enacted and embodied by local news, artefacts such as signals, maps, regulations, public acts, artistic performances, sensory experience and collective memories. The book offers an articulated discussion on these various means of spatial organisation, thereby providing insights into situations of conflict and proposing innovative ways forward for enhancing urban sociability.

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities

Urban Plots, Organizing Cities
Author: Claudio Coletta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317003551

By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forward a notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, it perceives the way cities are organized as a restless stratification of materials, meanings and uses, and deals with the interrelationships between actors, places, administrative rationalities and artefacts. It argues that urban fabric is 'manufactured' in this interplay between imagery and practices (of all the stake-holders, including planners, city managers and city users). Illustrated by in-depth empirical studies from across Europe and Latin America, the book explores material and symbolic aspects of the urban experience. In particular, the contributors focus on the less visible ways of organizing urban spaces, such as those enacted and embodied by local news, artefacts such as signals, maps, regulations, public acts, artistic performances, sensory experience and collective memories. The book offers an articulated discussion on these various means of spatial organisation, thereby providing insights into situations of conflict and proposing innovative ways forward for enhancing urban sociability.

Strange Skies

Strange Skies
Author: Jerome Clark
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2003
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780806522999

For more than half a century, pilots all over the world have reported sightings of strange phenomena -- extraordinary flying objects exhibiting speed and power unmatched by the most advanced military aircraft. Jerome Clark has been investigating UFO sightings for over thirty years, and has compiled fifty of the most puzzling and compelling cases. With references to official "Project Blue Book" government documents, recent scientific discoveries, and firsthand eyewitness testimony, this one-of-a-kind volume traces the history of air-to-air UFO encounters. Thrilling, baffling, and all true, these neyer-before-divulged secrets will leave you wondering if we are really alone in the universe. Book jacket.

Between Certainty and Finitude

Between Certainty and Finitude
Author: Aucke Forsten
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006
Genre: Buddhism
ISBN: 9783825898137

This book confronts two ways of approaching an Indo-Buddhist text with one another. The first is the historico-philological method, which takes the Cartesian ideal of certainty as its starting point. The second approach follows the lead of the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. This approach assumes that all human understanding is finite. In this light, it raises questions such as: what are the preliminary assumptions with which a buddhologist addresses a buddhist text? In analogy with these two ways of looking at a text, the book is divided into two parts. Part One is a historico-philological study of the Sanskrit compound sva-citta-dr'sya-matra as it is represented in the second chapter of the Indo-Buddhist text Lankavatarasutra (fifth century). Part Two then examines the unquestioned acceptances of this buddhological research from a philosophical point of view. The book opens up an entirely new perspective on methodological problems concerning any study of an alien culture.

Tracking the Bermuda Triangle

Tracking the Bermuda Triangle
Author: Jenna Vale
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1508185719

Although it didn't get its iconic name until the twentieth century, the Bermuda Triangle has been mystifying travelers since Christopher Columbus crossed through the area. There are no official perimeters and the Triangle appears on no map, but still it has swallowed ships, planes, and various crew members, leaving no clue as to their fate. What causes the high number of disappearances in this area of the Atlantic? Is it a mysterious magnetic field, pirates, a weather anomaly, or something more? In this intriguing volume, readers will consider the scientific, the bizarre, and everything in between as they pore over different cases and theories about the baffling activity in the Bermuda Triangle.